Falkland Islands

• Sunday, January 11th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Strong increase in Magallanes tourism.

  The influx of foreign tourists to Magallanes Region experienced a strong 36% expansion during 2003 according to the Chilean International Police and Migration Office statistics.

• Friday, January 9th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines:
  Memorial moves closer; No agreement reached over charter flights; Charter companies replace Tristar; Malvina House sold; Cruise visits this week.

• Thursday, January 8th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Paedophilic case involves Punta Arenas church.

  The family of a minor repeatedly abused by a Catholic priest will be demanding the Bishopric of Punta Arenas alleging that religious authorities did not collaborate in disclosing the current address of the culprit who was sentenced to jail in absence, reports the local press.

• Thursday, January 8th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltarians “primary players” of their own future.

  Chief Minister Peter Caruana has declared that there now appears to be a realisation and acceptance in London that it is the Gibraltarians who are the “primary players in all discussions, processes and decisions about our future ? since only we can decide that future”, reported this week the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Wednesday, January 7th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  No response to Argentine “annual ritual”

  The elected Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands has said it attaches “no particular significance” to the sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands issued by the Argentine Government last Saturday January 3.

• Wednesday, January 7th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine War Memorial on the Falklands advances a stage further.

  The construction of a permanent Memorial at the Argentine War Cemetery at Darwin on East Falklands, in memory of Argentines killed in the 1982 conflict, has taken another step forward.

• Tuesday, January 6th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  Chile set to become world's main salmon exporter; Seals consume more fish than humans; Tuna sold for JPY 3.9 million in the first auction of the year; Video instructions to save seabirds; EC Agreement on migratory fish stocks ratified.

• Tuesday, January 6th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Newcastle joins war on terror.

  Portsmouth warship HMS Newcastle heads for the Mediterranean today to join a multinational force fighting the war against terrorism.

• Saturday, January 3rd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina calls for resumption of “sovereignty talks”

  The Argentine government ratified this Saturday, as it has been doing for decades, Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and demanded Britain begins negotiations to solve the conflict in the shortest time possible.

• Friday, January 2nd 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Almost war, 25 years ago.

  In one of its 2003 last editions “La Prensa Austral” from Punta Arenas recalls that 25 years ago Argentina and Chile were in the verge of war, and a last minute intervention from the then newly named Pope John Paul, avoided the full scale conflict.